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Celestia
Here's a very cool (and free!) science program for you: Celestia:
Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All travel in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.
I've been fiddling with it for a little while and as far as free astronomical software goes, this one's pretty darn nice, and it gives you a feel for just how vast space is, even around out small part of it. Check it out.
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Thanks for the link!
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can you help me john.. i know you know alot about the internet and where to find things.. go to my journal. read this entry.. and god ill love you till forever if you can figure this riddle out for me????????????????/
http://journals.aol.com/shelibeal75/astheshellturnspartTWO/
12/16/04 6:47 PM